Hose-supporter.



S. C. WALLACE.

HOSE, SUPPORTER- APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22. me.

Patented Feb.'13,1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1917.

Application filed March 22, 1916. Serial No. 85,980.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIDNEY C. fJVALLaoE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Hose-Supporter; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to the art of garment supporters, and moreparticularly to that kind for supporting hose.

One of the objects ofthe invention is to provide an improved hosesupporter having simple, efficient and practical features ofconstruction, for instance, improved means at the lower part ofthefastener to receive a puckered part of the hose.

In practical fields the details of construction may necessitatealterations, falling within the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, ashereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective showing the hose supporter as appliedto a portion of a leg supporting the hose.

Fig. 2 is a view in front elevation of the fastener between the strandand the hose.

Fig. 3 is an edge view.

Fig. 4: is a sectional view on line 44 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

Referring more especially to the drawings, 1 and 2 designate two piecesof wire material, one end of the piece 1 is bent to form a plurality ofeyes or coils 3 consecutively in alinement, and one end portion of abraided fabric strand is passed zig-zag through the coils 3, as shown inedge view in Fig. 3, the extreme portion of said end, after passingthrough the lowermost coil 3 is returned to the intermediate coil or eye3, and inserted therethrough, thereby insuring the connection of thestrand to said eyes. Below the coils 3 the piece of wire material 1 isbent to form a straight portion 4 of a length substantially as shown inFig. 2. Beyond the straight portion 4, the wire material 1 is bent at 5and 6, and then formed in a downwardly curved part 7 terminating in aspring coil 8, beyond which the yieldable arm 9 is provided, which isbent at 10 and 11, thereby conforming to the shape of the part 7. Thearm 9 beyond the bend 11 terminates in a straight portion 12, which whenfastened in the hook 13 of the metal band 1 1, is parallel with thestraight part 4:. The arm 9 and the part 7 form the two sides of theloop of a hose supporting fastening device, which loop is designed toreceive a pucker 15 of the hose 16*, as shown in Fig. 1, thereby holdingthe hose in position. The other piece of wire material 2 is bent to forma loop, and the opposite end portions of the wire material 2 beyond theloop thereof are arranged in parallelism. The part 16 of the parallelportions of the wire material 2 extends upwardly beyond the otherparallel part 17, and is formed into a plurality of eyes or coils 18, toreceive the other end of the braided fabric strand 19,-thereby holdingthe strand about the leg of the wearer, a trifle above the calf of theleg. The loop of the wire material 2 is bent in several places as shown,to provide two laterally extending side loops 20 and the central loopconnecting bridge 21, which extends through the elongated loop of a wirematerial 1. Where the parallel parts 16 and 17 of the wire material 1extend into the loops 20, said parts are curved as shown at 22, whichengage the part 7 and the arm 9 as shown at 23. Referring to Fig. 3 itis to be noted that the loops 20 overlie the part 7 and the arm 9,andthe portions 20 of said loops 20 extend at acute angles to the part 7and the arm 9, so that the portions 20 of the loops 20 will engage thepart 7 and the arm 9. It is to be noted that the band 14 extends aboutthe straight portion 4 and the two parallel parts 16 and 17, and isprovided with a tongue, to form a hook 13, which receives the portion 12of the arm 9. When attaching a hose to the-fastener, a pucker 15 ispassed through the loop ofthe wire material 1, so that the loops 20 willextend into the pucker, so that where the loops 20 are designed toengage the part 7 and the arm 9, the puckered part of the hose is heldfrictionally in place, that is, when the portion 12 of the arm 9 isfastened to the hook 13, thereby securely supportin the hose. Saidparallel portions 16 and 1% in Fig. 3 are out of alinement with the part7 and the arm 9.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and usefulis:

1. A hose supporter, comprising two clamping members provided withgarter attaching means at their upper ends, means for clamping saidmembers together, one of said members comprising an elongated loop, theother constructed from a single length of wire bent to provide a pair ofadjacent parallel parts, which extend downwardly centrally oi the loopmember and then eX tend inwardly, and gradually curve outwardly, saidoutwardly extending portions of said parts diverging laterally overlyingthe sides of said elongated loop, and terniinating in side loops, theupper portions of said side loops extending inwardly toward and engagingthe sides of the elongated loop, and said side loops connected by abridge.

2. A hose supporter, comprising two clamping members, one constructed ofa.

single length of Wire bent to form a tapering loop provided at its lowerend with a Copies of this patent maybe obtained for spring coiled eye,said loop having a short ic'ree spring portion and an upwardly extendingelongated part having garter attaching means at its upper end, the otherclamping member having parts in parallelism with said elongated part,one of said parallel parts of the second member having garter attachingmeans at its upper end, said second clamping member having side clampingloops at its lower end to overlie and engage the sides of the taperingloop, a sleeve clamp surrounding and binding said parallel parts of bothmembers together, and provided with a lateral hook to be engaged by theextremity of said short free spring portion.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

SIDNEY C. WALLACE.

Witnesses:

L. A. WAsHBURN, M. M. ROBERTS.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington,D. C.

